Saturday, November 8, 2008

FLORIDA: SEARCH FOR CAYLEE - "Please don't let this be my Caylee."

Crowd Gathers To Begin Search For Caylee Anthony
Saturday, November 8, 2008 – updated: 9:36 am EST November 8, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- People began gathering in the cool, predawn hours to take part in what organizers hoped would be a massive search for little Caylee Anthony's body.

Officials of the Texas-based search group EquuSearch estimated earlier in the week they would draw as many as 5,000 volunteers to comb through woods and swampland to look for skeletal remains of the child.

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The command post is near the corner of Judge Road and Shadowridge Drive (
see map), almost directly north of Orlando International Airport. The search is set to begin at 8:00am Saturday and they are expecting as many as 5,000 people. If you want to be one of them, you can show up Saturday morning at the command post.

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AUDIO RELEASED OF GEORGE ANTHONY INTERVIEW

Late Friday afternoon, Eyewitness News obtained new audio tapes of interviews with George Anthony. They indicate he feared the worst when Caylee disappeared.

"My, my heart is killing me right now to say it's going into my granddaughter is not, no longer alive," he said (listen to full interview).

WHAT DID EQUU-SEARCH FIND?

LAS VEGAS: OJ SIMPSON DENIED NEW TRIAL, BAIL DENIED

Questioned over raid on hotel room: OJ Simpson (file photo). (Getty Images)

O.J. Simpson, left, hugs his friend Thomas Scotto, with his sister Carmelita Durio, right, after he was found guilty on all counts following his trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The verdict comes 13 years to the day after Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. (Photo/Steve Marcus, Pool)

O.J. Simpson Getty Images

OJ Simpson loses bid for new trial in Las Vegas
By KEN RITTER – 1 day ago
AP Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson was denied a new trial Friday by the Nevada judge who presided over his conviction in the gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room.

Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass said challenges raised by lawyers for Simpson and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart did not rise to the level of granting another trial.

"All of the issues have been preserved for the (Nevada) Supreme Court," Glass said, acknowledging her rulings could be appealed to the state's only appellate court.

Simpson and Stewart, who were shackled and in jail garb, did not speak during the 20-minute hearing, at which the judge also denied requests to release them on bail pending sentencing Dec. 5.

"They face life sentences, mandatory prison," Glass said. "Your motions are being denied."

Simpson, 61, and Stewart, 54, were convicted Oct. 3 of charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon in the hotel room confrontation on Sept. 13, 2007. Simpson has argued he was trying to recover stolen mementos.

Each faces five years to life in prison on each of their two kidnapping convictions, and a mandatory sentence of at least two years or up to 30 years on each of the two armed robbery convictions.

SOME TRIALS ARE NEVER OVER...KEEP ON READING

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

BOISE, ID: JOSEPH DUNCAN -DEATH AND 6 LIFE SENTENCES

JOSEPH EDWARD DUNCAN III


JOSEPH DUNCAN WITH KIDNAPPED SHASTA GROENE

Joseph Duncan is escorted to jury selection for his trial at the Boise Centre on the Grove convention center on Monday. Duncan pleaded guilty in December to 10 federal charges, three of which could bring the death penalty.Associated Press (Associated Press)

Convicted Child-Killer Joseph Duncan Gets 6 Life Sentences
FOXNEWS.COM Tuesday, November 04, 2008

BOISE, Idaho — Confessed child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III received his final sentences Monday for the torture and slayings of an Idaho family with a judge telling him that his cruel rampage "exceeds the bounds of human understanding."

Six life prison terms in federal and state court were added to the death sentences a federal jury handed Duncan in August. He already is serving three life sentences handed to him by a state judge in 2006 on kidnapping counts.

In May 2005, Duncan kidnapped 9-year-old Dylan Groene, and his sister Shasta, then 8, from their Coeur d'Alene home and held them for weeks in western Montana. He tortured and sexually abused both children, eventually killing Dylan but Shasta was rescued after seven weeks.

Duncan had targeted the children, watching their home and killing their 13-year-old brother, Slade Groene, their mother, Brenda Groene, and her fiance, Mark McKenzie, in order to take the young siblings.

In state court Monday, Duncan was sentenced to three life terms for those murders, a penalty agreed upon mainly to spare Shasta the trauma of testifying. Shortly after that hearing, U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge sentenced Duncan to three federal life terms, one for kidnapping Shasta, and one each for sexually abusing Shasta and her brother.